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GORDON, Adam Burgess of Aberdeen
(About 1605-)
CULLEN, Barbara
(About 1615-1677)
GORDON, Alexander Merchant in Aberdeen
(1649-1705)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. CUMMING, Isobell

GORDON, Alexander Merchant in Aberdeen 1 2 3

  • Baptised: 1 November 1649, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 2 3
  • Marriage (1): CUMMING, Isobell
  • Died: 5 September 1705 1

   Other names for Alexander were GORDON, Alexr,4 GORDON, John 5 and GORDOUNE, Alexander.

   User ID: V605.

  General Notes:

"GORDOUNE
ALEXANDER
ADAME GORDOUNE/BARBARA CULLEN
M
01/11/1649
168/A 40 63
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
St Nicholas parish Aberdeen
Baptisms

"1649
i November
Gordoun
Adame Gordonne and Barbara Cullen ane sonne called Alexr, Mr James Gordonne, Johne Lesly, Doctor James leslie Alexr burnett elder Thomas Melvill Godfathers"



In this inscription the sections of the epitaph are separated on the journal page by short vertical lines, which have here been represented by starting each phraseof the inscription on a new line:

"EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN ST NICHOLAS CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD Section D
...
On another ground-stone, close beside the last there is -
Here lyes Alexr Gordon Senr
or Mert in Abd who departed
this life Sepr 5 1705 aged 56
also isobell Cumming his spous
who departed Decr 21 1720 aged 62
Also Adam Gordon departed Jany 2d 1698 aged 10 years Jean
Gordon departed Feby 2d 1699
aged 20 Also George Gordon
departed Novr 26 1720 aged 26
Also John William Alexander
Ann isobell and Margaret Gordons
their children"
(Alexander Forbes and family epitaph follows next)

from Scottish Notes and Queries1890-1891 1 2 3


Alexander married Isobell CUMMING. (Isobell CUMMING was born about 1660 1 and died on 21 December 1720 1.)


Sources


1 e-books, Aberdeen Journal Scottish Notes and Queries 1890-1891.

2 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Saint Nicholas parish Aberdeen Baptisms.

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Saint Nicholas Parish Aberdeen Marriages 1702.

5 e-books, The Decisions of the Court of Session: From Its Institution Until the Separation of the Court Into Two Divisions in the Year 1808, Volumes 33-34 1756 August 3.

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